Home Gardener's Perennials and Bulbs : The Complete Guide to Growing 58 Flowers in Your Backyard

Create beautiful gardens with perennials and bulbs that will bloom every year!

• Over 250 color photographs and illustrations, plus zone maps
• Step-by-step instructions for planting are clear and concise
• Essential information to help you design gardens and borders, improve the soil, and maintain your plants
• Expert advice on picking the best plants for your yard and dealing with common garden pests and diseases
• Helpful tips that save time, effort, and money

Perennials are the types of plants that bloom every year, and because you know what to expect in terms of color, blooms, and textures, you can use them to provide a basic structure to your garden, borders, and the overall landscape.

Home Gardener's Perennials & Bulbs provides concise instructions for designing gardens, improving the soil, planting, dividing, fertilizing, and maintaining perennials and bulbs. Extensive directories of the most popular varieties provide essential information for success, including sizes, planting requirements, maintenance tips, and recommended cultivars. The book also offers information on buying plants, starting plants from seed, and transplanting.

Hundreds of step-by-step color photographs illustrate basic gardening techniques. This guide to creating beautiful gardens with eye-catching perennials also offers tips for saving time and money, along with useful advice on dealing with common garden pests and diseases.

Home Gardener's Perennials & Bulbs includes information on:

• Choosing perennials
• Forms and habits of plants and flowers
• Blooming seasons for perennials
• Fertilizing
• Container plants
• Dividing perennials
• Types of bulbs
• Buying, storing, and planting bulbs
• Naturalizing bulbs
• Dividing bulbs
• End-of-season maintenance
• Hardiness zone maps
• Pests and diseases
• Extensive A–Z of plants—basics, soil, planting, garden uses, and recommended cultivars

Miranda Smith was an expert grower who gardened and taught gardening for over 30 years. She was the author of five top-selling garden books, including Your Backyard Herb Garden, Backyard Fruits and Berries, and Greenhouse Gardening. She edited and was the primary writer of The Real Dirt, Farmers Tell about Organic and Low Input Practices in the Northeast.